The 10 Most Important Things They Didn't Teach You in School

<p>#10. Sex Ed (for Girls): How to Spot a Dchebag**
-Chapters Include:</p>

<p>I. Types of D**chebag
II. How to Tell When He's Lying;
III. Why Your Male Friends Almost Certainly Want to Have Sex With You;
IV. Why There is Nothing to be Gained by Showing Your Boobs to a Camera.</p>

<p>#9. Sex Ed (for Boys): Why Porn is Not a Good Way to Learn About Sex
-Chapters Include:</p>

<p>I. It's a Vagina, Not a Slab of Meat You're Trying to Tenderize;
II. Your Pen15 Size is Probably Perfectly Fine;
III. Why Your First Time is Going to be a Humiliating Disaster, No Matter What You Do;
IV. Most Women Are Not Sexually Stimulated by Spanking;
V. Every Woman is Different and You Will Only Learn What She Likes Via Practice;
VI. That's OK, Because the Practice is Awesome.</p>

<p>#8. Phys. Ed: Practical Self-Defense
-Chapters Include:</p>

<p>I. Why Your Wallet is Not Worth Dying For;
II. Why Guns and Knives Are Not Awesome (Includes Visual Aids Depicting Wounds of Gnarled Strips of Exposed Fat, Tendons and Skin, Plus Graphic Descriptions of Life in a Wheelchair);
III. How to Break Off an Argument With a Hobo Before He Stabs You;
IV. Why You Can't Reason With a Screaming Drunk;
V. Why Believing Action Movies Are Real Will Get You Killed;
VI. How to Tell When That Guy Walking Toward You is Concealing a Weapon.</p>

<p>#7. Industrial Arts: Emergency Repairs
-Chapters Include:</p>

<p>I. How to Patch and Paint a Wall So You Can Get Your Deposit Back From Your Landlord;
II. Identifying Which Wires in Your House Will Kill You if You Touch Them;
III. What to do When You Wake Up to Find Your Toilet/Refrigerator/Hot Water Heater/Air Conditioner/Sink is Puking Water Onto Your Floor;
IV. When to Call the Repair Guy;
V. How to Figure Out if the Repair Guy is Screwing You;
VI. Foreign Objects You're Going to Try to Put in the Microwave at Some Point so Let's Just Get it Out of Your System Now.</p>

<p>#6. Business: Success = Meeting the Right People
-Chapters include:</p>

<p>I. First Impressions are Really Important;
II. Subsequent Impressions Are Also Important;
III. No, You're Not Terrell Owens (aka Why Acting Like a D**chebag is a Bad Investment).</p>

<p>#5. Health: How to Stop Throwing Your Money Away on Snake Oil
-Chapters Include:</p>

<p>I. Pharmaceutical Companies Are Dicks, But at Least They Use Scientists;
II. Why Hippies Have Never Discovered a Single Disease Cure;
III. "Homeopathic" is Another Word for Voodoo Bullsh1t;
IV. Just Go See a Doctor You Big Baby.</p>

<p>#4. Health: Why Losing Weight Requires Some Amount of Suffering
-Chapters Include:</p>

<p>I. Hunger is Fat Leaving the Body;
II. Eating Three Square Meals a Day Will Absolutely Make You Fat if You Sit in a Chair All Day;
III. Have You Considered Walking Instead of Driving;
IV. How to Dress in Ways That De-Emphasize Your Fatness.</p>

<p>#3. Home Economics: How to Cook Cheap Food That Won't Kill You
-Chapters Include:</p>

<p>I. Pay Attention to Serving Sizes on the Label, They're Laughably Small;
II. Fat Free Versions of Fat Foods Are Terrible, Don't Bother;
III. Seriously, Fat Free Cheese Doesn't Melt;
IV. It's Hard to Screw Up Spaghetti;
V. Why if You Eat Fruity Pebbles for Dinner, You'll be Hungry Again 30 Minutes Later;
VI. If You Make a Pot of Chili and Freeze Bowls of It You'll Totally Have Like Two Months' Worth of Meals There.</p>

<p>#2. Political Science: Why Talk Radio is a Terrible Source of Information
- Chapters Include:</p>

<p>I. If the Host Compares His Opponents to Communists or Nazis, He is Crazy;
II. Why Politics Cannot be Simplified;
III. If the Host Uses Derisive Nicknames for His Opponents, He Has Nothing to Teach You.</p>

<p>#1. Social Studies: Life is Hard and You Will Die, Get Over It
-Chapters Include:</p>

<p>I. You Can Die at Any Moment, Get Over It;
II. Required Reading: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy;
III. Roleplay Exercise: Various Scenes from The Road, by Cormac McCarthy;
IV. Yes, It Takes 10,000 Hours to Get Really Good at Something, But At Least You're Not Scavenging Through a Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland.</p>

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<p>Felt like it needed to be here, read by ya'll, especially #6 considering that one thread about talent vs hard work. Also funny as hell.</p>

<p>The hard truth, but the truth nonetheless.</p>